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Manawatu Herald, 14 October 1902, Page 2

The ordinary meeting of Court Pride of Foxton, A.0.F., will be held this evening. The King has approved the design the Federal Government for a Coni' monwealth flag. Ten thousand men of all trades in Geneva have struck in sympathy with the tramway strikers. The infantry and landwehr are in readiness to maintain order.

At the racecourse, on the second day of the Otaki races, the three-years-old racehorse Peter, by Guncotton, owned by Mr H- H. Bills, of Otaki, was put up Mr Byron Brown, and knocked down to Mr F. Easton, of Foxton, for £29 10s.

Two thousand one hundred and seventy-sis cattle were destroyed in New South Wales because of tuberculosis between January 1 and August 3Ij»KJO2.

In a Supreme Court case on Friday Mr lellicoe despairingly asked it the Court purposed sitting on Sunday! His Honor, the Chief Justice, thought the Sabbath could not be devoted to a more solemn duty, but expressed his unwillingness to continue the business of the Court that day as long as the feelings of the community were such as they are,

, The Otaki Mail says the grandstand luncheon was again catered by Messrs Langley Bros., of Foxton, in first-rate style. Holiday excursion tickets available for return till 27th inst will be issued by the Railway on the 20th and 21st instant for Wanganui, Hastings mid Napier and intermediate st dims. The Hawke’s Bav show will then be on.

The last Daily Mail supplies another example of the New Zealand Premier’s indefatigableness. "It was," the paper says, “ a curious and striking coincidence that the first colonial Premier to take his seat in the Abbey was Mr Seddon, Premier of New Zealand, and the first cable message that left the Abbey was sent to Wellington, New Zealand.”

Are the Prohibitionists dead ? In a great number of electorates there will, apparently, be no contest, and no contest means no Licensing Poll. Verily our tri-ennial agitators are exhausted. An amusing sketch from the advertising pages of the last Review of Reviews shows a powerful and ugly pug dog running along with his back arched and his eyes glancing over bis back, near the tail of which is sh awn a bee almost ready to sting. Ihe pUg says, “ Great Scott ! He take me for his honeysuckle 1 ”

Further discoveries have been made in the German army prove that 68lb is the outside weight the average soldier can carry on a day’s march without injuring fits heart*

She will now get a little fesf. Convicted at Wednesbnrv of riotous conduct, Joyce Lacy, 40, pleaded that she was thd mother of 20 children, and that her husband thrashed her twice a weski She was ordered a month’s hard laboUf.

The article 11 In the Public Eye,’’ in the N 7.- Illustrated Magazine contains photos and notices of Sir James Hector, Dr W ihhrnmi, Hon. C Pharazyn, and tile late J< P Maitland. A crab is ft long has been caught in Japan. Its body is the size of a large bicycle wheel. The two long claws would go round a man. Attached to its jointed limbs ?,re spines and hooks. In the sea this species sticks pieces of sponges and seaweed on its body with a glutinous saliva, so as to resemble the sea bottom.